Category: Thomas Goodwin
In Time of Distress: Recall and consider the days of old, call to remembrance what formerly hath been between God and you.
Make diligent search into, and to call to remembrance what formerly hath been between God and you. The remembrance of…
Take heed of rash, desperate, impatient, and unbelieving speeches and wishes: I said in my haste, “God will never be merciful; my hope is perished from the Lord,” as the drops of God’s wrath began to soak into his soul.
Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said, Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without…
God is gone, light is gone: Oh, woe to us, we are undone! You err, poor souls, not knowing the Scriptures!
Who is among you walking in darkness, that yet fears to offend God as much as hell, and endeavoureth and…
Faith: An Incredible Miracle of Miracles!
CHAPTER XIV: A second sort of ends for the trial and discovery of graces, especially of faith. This is certain,…
Satan’s Power: Working and Abusing Our Conscience
And as he can stir up that guilt that is in us, so also work upon that in judiciousness and…
Swallowed Up With Sorrow. Deep Bondage to Sin. Satan’s Practice: Using False Apprehensions and Aggravations as Inductions to Prove a False Conclusion.
And though it may be truly affirmed that neither Satan nor our own consciences can ever aggravate unto us too…
For this end do evil spirits go up and down the earth: to study men.
Satan, ‘that old serpent,’ he hath had time enough to improve his knowledge in; a student he is of five…
Our Own Hearts, upon the Holy Ghost’s deserting, become authors unto us of Darkness.
When God hath withdrawn the light of his countenance, and night comes on, and those damps and fogs of jealousies…
Principles of Corrupt Affections in the Heart Join with Carnal Reason in its Opposition Against Faith.
in persuading God’s children that their estates are nought, in securing men unregenerate that their estates are good; Especially in…
A Child of Light Walking in Darkness
And God takes the liberty that other fathers have, to shut his children out of his presence when he is…